For over twenty years the ship Waimea,
which flew the flag of the New Zealand Shipping Co. traded to New Zealand, and during that
time she brought out a large number of immigrants to this country. A vessel of 848 tons,
she was built at Hamburg in 1868, and while under the German flag she was called the
Dorette; in fact, when she visited Auckland in 1874 she still bore that name. She was
brought by the New Zealand Shipping Co. in 1874, and in later years her rig was
changed from that of ship to barque. she was sold to a Norwegian firm for £2450. She did
not fly her new flag for long, as shortly afterwards she was wrecked on the South African
coast.White Wings Sir Henry Brett

Some of
the passengers on this ship were destined for the Manchester Block, Manawatu. These are the immigrants of the Colonist Aid Corporation.